Sri Lankan state intelligence took photographs of people participating in a discussion on the ‘Right to Remember’ at Jaffna Library on Sunday.
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| Photographs: Tamil Guardian |
The event, organised by the Tamil Civil Society Forum, looked to discuss issues on remembrance.
Lecturer in Law at Jaffna University and TCSF Co-Spokesperson, Guruparan Kumaravadivel, added that a plurality of narratives was possible within the collective memory of a political community using Tamil nationalism as an example.
Speaking on the blurred liens between perpetrators and victims, after highlighting that the Tamil people’s right to memory had been violated on 18th May and November 27th, human rights activist Ruki Fernando, said,
“One man’s Hero is another man’s villain. How do we reconcile the blurred lines between victim and perpetrator?”
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